Electrocuting Your Brain Could Help With Your Maths Skills

Researchers have discovered that a small jolt of electricity, one that is so small, most patients don’t even realize it, can improve a person’s math skill. The key is to direct the electricity to pass through the brain’s parietal lobe, which is involved in number processing.

What researchers did was teach the participant a new series of symbols (not our common Arabic numerals) that represented numbers. While their brains were being shocked, they tested their ability to organize the numbers. People who had received the electricity were better than people who weren’t.

While there’s no safe, practical use for these findings at the moment, scientists are excited at the prospect of being able to improve people’s abilities in the future. And while people will still need to put an effort behind these skills, they can still help people. In the meantime, please don’t lick batteries before your math tests.

This does not mean you can fill up your kitchen sink full of water, plug in a hairdryer and then throw the hair dryer into it whilst your head is in the sink.

I know you’re probably struggling at school but killing yourself isn’t an option.